Five interpretations of The Lorax

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It's more than 40 years since Dr Seuss first published The Lorax, his classic tale of needless consumerism and environmental ruin. But as a new film version is released in the US, what is the book really all about?

As schoolchildren across the world can attest, The Lorax is the story of an ambitious businessman, a Once-ler, who reaps an entire forest of Truffula Trees to render their soft tufts into luxurious thneeds.

The Lorax, who speaks for the trees, warns of the dire consequences of such environmental mismanagement - but his message goes unheeded until it's too late.

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But just what is the Lorax about? Over the past 40 years, the book has meant different things at different times.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17224775

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1. Ignorance ,Greed and Opulence